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... Harbour another night! Anyway, they had space so moved the 4 days forward and it was fine. The room was a 4 bed room, but in a little flat. It’s classed as a 8 bed as there’s 4 beds in 2 rooms. There was no one else in out room which was nice.

The bed was all right, but the pillows were terrible, they had to be folded over just to make half of what a normal pillow would be. Managed to fall asleep in the ...

... loose boulders. We didn't see much wildlife apart from a few brush-turkeys & a butterfly! Lots of trees, bushes and mangroves. We wandered into the inlet, before taking the middle route back to the lookout, wrong time of year for humpbacked whales unfortunately.

... go out. After chasing them up and a lot of strong words the Monday evening and Tuesday morning, it was eventually picked up – thank god….cost enough to send it all!!!! Other chours on the list were things such as chasing up how to close my retirement funds, tax rebate and putting my car up for sale. However boring stuff out the way (well not even sorted but yeah…)… time to have fun!

... it was new Asics joggers at only $50, Zoe and Luke were treated to Fila and Olga, well she spent the most time in the shops browsing and came away with a $5 top and a disgruntled husband grouching at the amount of time spent in each shop!

But the best was to come last of the day. We had booked into the Australian Outback Spectacular for dinner and a show. It was 2 hours of food, wine and ...

... I am surprised I didn't take off a side mirror, but we are still alive!

After Byron we took our time back to Surfers to do what tourists do best lay on the beach once again. Its so funny to see everyone after such a winter at home and see how white they are compared to my skin now. I never realized how tanned I really was until I saw them again!